Word: manns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chimerenga came to Harvard in 1968 when the Graduate School of Education offered him a scholarship. In that same year, Wareham entered as a freshman after attending Horace Mann High School in the Bronx. After graduating cum laude from Harvard, he went to Columbia University Law School...
...received adequate attention. Kilson's criticisms are rooted in a vision of politics and culture from an earlier generation of intellectuals whose political life was, unlike these "Jack and Jill" revolutionaries, learned and serious. It was a vision shaped in the shadow of eminent black scholars such as Horace Mann Bond, Oliver Cox, Rayford Logan and St. Clair Drake, Kilson is from a later generation of intellectuals who stood their ground as young black radicals during the McCarthy era and as a consequence know only too well that real politics requires intellectual clarity and considerable sacfifice. It is for this...
...breakthroughs can be overrated. Flashy visuals and rock music on the soundtrack were hardly invented by Miami Vice--or by MTV, for that matter. They have been staples of artfully directed feature films for a couple of decades. "We haven't invented the Hula Hoop or anything," admitted Michael Mann, the show's executive producer and stylistic guru, in an interview with Rolling Stone. "We're only contemporary. And if we're different from the rest of TV, it's because the rest of TV isn't even contemporary...
Even a Ninja warrior might have a hard time competing for attention with what many consider the real stars of Miami Vice: the music and the visual pyrotechnics. Both are largely the contributions of Michael Mann, who joined the show as executive producer when NBC decided to turn Yerkovich's pilot into a series. Mann had directed the stylish film thriller Thief and the TV movie The Jericho Mile, as well as creating the TV series Vega$. But Miami Vice marked his first opportunity to bring a cinematic eye to the small screen...
...conditions of being an American," says Arthur Mann, professor of history at the University of Chicago, "is to be aware of the fact that a whole lot of people around you are different, different in their origins, their religions, their life-styles." Yet most Americans do not know exactly what to make of those differences. Of those polled by Yankelovich, 59% believe that immigrants generally...